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The case stems from Supap Kirtsaeng’s college experience. A native of Thailand, Kirtsaeng came to America in 1997 to study at Cornell University. When he discovered that his textbooks, produced by Wiley, were substantially cheaper to buy in Thailand than they were in Ithaca, N.Y., he rallied his Thai relatives to buy the books and ship them to him in the United States.

He then sold them on eBay, making upward of $1.2 million, according to court documents.

Wiley, which admitted that it charged less for books sold abroad than it did in the United States, sued him for copyright infringement. Kirtsaeng countered with the first-sale doctrine.

In August 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that anything that was manufactured overseas is not subject to the first-sale principle. Only American-made products or “copies manufactured domestically” were.

First, Wiley (and other text book manufacturers) are evil incarnate and text book sales are a racket. I'm all for students finding ways around their paralyzing pricing schemes and their "new editions" that are often not significantly different from the old ones.

Second, this "first sale" issue should apply globally. No company should have the power to control your property after you buy it.

When my inlaws were selling their house, my wife and I were cleaning out their garage. We found TWO jarts sets in very good condition in their original boxes. We still play with them and they seem unbreakable..

On a downside with the jarts, my oldest son can now whistle out of the blowhole in the top of his head.

I have always thought that the recounts were not as much about changing the results as about finding out how the Dems' own voter fraud was counteracted and, perhaps, getting Soros voting machines in...